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I need to get away for awhile to restore the blush to my cheeks after being forced to associate with people like you. Punta del Este is probably more east than north of Montevideo. From Montevideo I flew to Lima, Peru and then journeyed until I flew out of Caracas and back to the States. You have the Entirety of this Trip from almost 2 years ago and my Trip from Last Year, I hope you enjoyed my recollections. I saw "the Wrestler," and thought Mickey Rourke was real good in it, I've always liked his movies though he's been sort of inactive in recent years. Another gritty performance of his from twenty years ago was "Barfly," based on the life of writer Charles Bukowski. On Bukowski's tombstone is the Epitaph "Don't Try," a phrase so cryptic that nobody knows what it means. Don't try to dig me up? Glenn "Jeep" Davis died recently at the age of "74." Originally from West Virginia like a lot of the people in and around Akron, Jeep Davis went to Barberton High School in an Akron Suburb where he starred in Track. Widely recruited he chose Ohio State and in 1956 he won the Olympic Gold Medal in the 400 Meter Hurdles in Melbourne and repeated his Gold Medal Performance in the 400 Meter Hurdles at the 1960 Rome Olympics as well as adding a Gold Medal as a member of the winning 4 x 400 Meter Relay. In 1958 Jeep Davis won the Sullivan Award as the best amateur athlete in the country. Although Jeep Davis never played football for Ohio State he went out for the Detroit Lions and played wide receiver for them for 2 years. I stayed at the Kappa Sigma house at Ohio State one summer which was Jeep Davis' fraternity. In their basement they had pictures of their many star athletes, his was the only one to which they attached the appellation,"Champion." On September 9, 1972 Russia played the United States to decide the Olympic Gold Medal in Basketball at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Playing like Men Possessed the Russians gave the Americans their only close game but seemed to have fallen short and losing 50-49 in this Olympic Sport where the U.S. had won every game that it had ever played. Missing their last shot seemed to have doomed the Russians' effort but on a technicality the clock was reset and the Russians were given another chance which also, ha, ha, failed. On yet another technicality the Russians were given yet a third chance at victory and this time succeeded with their Star Center Alexander Belov, only 6'7" and "20" years old, catching the inbounds pass while sandwiched in between 2 big Americans and laying the ball in to give the U.S.S.R. the Victory. This was the best play that I've ever seen in Basketball. Protesting the Outcome as being rigged and that the Russians received 2 more chances than they deserved the Americans refused to accept the Silver Medals that they were entitled to for finishing 2nd and these Medals today are still waiting in some Vault for the American Basketball Players should they ever want them. Basketball is often unfair and in my Family the attitude was that of my older brother, Bob, who said, "They should have known that if they let it get close that something like this would happen," we basically shrugged our shoulders. An Olympic Silver Medal is quite good in and of itself. Oh, Alexander Belov isn't gloating over the Olympic Gold Medal that the Russians "took" from the Poor-Sport Americans, he died from Cancer when he was "26."